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The juxtaposition of human emotions and expression, caused by conflict, displacement, loss of identity and alienation, and photography as a medium to represent these human emotions is intriguing to me. It makes the exploration of how it has impacted the interpretation of human conflict and suffering a very interesting subject.
Can the photograph speak? Does the marriage between humans, nature and technology usher in new ways of finding expression? What attracts me as a photographer is to be able to capture a moment, a movement, to tell a story, to see the world as it reveals its beauty, truth, and ugliness in a particular place and time, to document our time, document history and to express myself.
My travel experiences of societies affected by war, sociocultural conflicts, violence, migration and displacement, became a stimulus for me to try and interpret and analyse the narratives. It allowed me to combine my love for photographic expression and storytelling, with my feeling of responsibility to tell the stories and represent the interconnectedness of people, places, history and society.
Shruti Mukherjee is a photographer who lives and works in India and Paris. She is a visual storyteller with ideals that mix nostalgia and modernism, a move towards modifying traditional beliefs in accordance with modern ideas. She documents human conflict, migration and displacement, building narratives through a montage of expressions, in the backdrop of history, society and time. Before completing her Master's Degree in Photography and Image-Making at Paris College of Art, Shruti completed her Bachelor of Art from Delhi University and a diploma in Journalism. She worked for a newspaper briefly, before she started working as a graphic designer. In 2015 she decided to work for NGOs devoted to culture and education, allowing her to explore her skills in photographic storytelling. Her photography project titled “Auschwitz: Site as History, Eye as a witness” was exhibited at Guwahati Artists' Guild, India, in 2019.